World Building and the Early Modern Imagination 1st Edition by Allison Kavey 0230105882 9780230105881

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ISBN 10: 0230105882

ISBN 13: 9780230105881

Author: Allison B. Kavey 

The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the period 1500-1700 as a means of accessing the plethora of world models that circulated in Europe during this era.

World Building and the Early Modern Imagination 1st Table of contents:

“Think you there was, or ever could be” a World such as this I Dreamed – A.B. Kavey

Paracelsus on the “New Creation” and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception – D.T. Daniel

Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres – A.B. Kavey

The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler – S.J. Rabin

A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher’s Museum in Rome – M.A. Waddell

Fantasy Islands: Utopia, The Tempest, and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness – G. Giglioni

Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth – A. Coppola

The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555-1634) and the Death of Prester John – M. Salvadore

Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500-1668 – J. De Lorenzi

“In manners they be rude, and monst’rous eke in fashion”: Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama – P. Tuite

Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581) – V. Carey

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